ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Asperous

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Asperous is an adjective meaning Rough, rugged, uneven.

Meaning

Rough, rugged, uneven.

More Meanings

  1. Bitter, cruel, severe.

Example Sentences

And as their valour, so you trow, defied / on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, / so many changing skies their manhood tried, / such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar; […]
[T]here needeth onely an unfolding and deplication of the inſide of this order, to ſhevv, it is not ſo aſperous and thorny as our Nature apprehendeth it by the firſt glances that light upon it.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anfractuous, rough, irregular, asperulous, roughsome, rugged.

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